The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 122
A few days after this more figs were ready for plucking, and Alfin in his turn set out for the palace.
Who acts: few days, Alfin · What happens: be, pluck, set out
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few days, Alfin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 days | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 days | amod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ready | nsubj |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 figs | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 figs | det |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 figs | amod |
| 7 | figs | fig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 days | nmod |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ready | cop |
| 9 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 plucking | mark |
| 11 | plucking | pluck | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 ready | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 set | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 set | cc |
| 14 | Alfin | Alfin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 set | nsubj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 turn | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 turn | nmod:poss |
| 17 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Alfin | nmod |
| 18 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ready | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 set | compound:prt |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 palace | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 palace | det |
| 22 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 set | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a few days after this more figs | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pluck | gerund | a few days after this more figs not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | set out | past | Alfin in Alfin's turn | for the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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